Evan Louro Hits from 60 Yards

Submitted by skurnie on

Michigan's sophomore goalkeeper hits a 50 yard field goal...and then a 60 yarder. 

Good to know he's got backup options in case soccer doesn't pan out for him (it will, he's one of the best American goalkeepers in his age group)...

B1G Ten Leading Michigan hosts Rutgers Saturday at 11:30am and if you show your Northwestern Football Ticket, you can get in for free. Michigan played at #7 Notre Dame last night and drew 1-1.

We’re two days away from #FutbolB4Football! Check out @umichsoccer’s Evan Louro nail a 60-yard FG! #GoBlue http://t.co/45ISlqO6O3

— Michigan Athletics (@UMichAthletics) October 8, 2015

SAMgO

October 8th, 2015 at 1:29 PM ^

Well if he's on scholarship with soccer then we'd have to count him as a scholarship player for football and actually bump him to a full scholarship if he's on a partial one. I believe we've given out all our leftover scholly's for this season to former walk-ons, so he'd need to give up his soccer scholarship to play football.

Sauce Castillo

October 8th, 2015 at 1:54 PM ^

Why would we have to count him for football? I remeber watching "The U part 2" 30 for 30 and when Butch Davis took over they had the limited amount of scholarships so guys would be on track scholarship and be playing football too.  I know Santana Moss was one of those guys.  Not saying you're wrong but what are the details on this?

SAMgO

October 8th, 2015 at 2:11 PM ^

It may have been different back then, but the rule now essentially lays out a hierarchy that forces scholarships to count against football or basketball if either of those are one of the two sports. Here's a link to the Texas A&M compliance explanation of it, which is the first thing I found on google. It's from 2003-04 but I doubt that policy has changed much.

 

justingoblue

October 8th, 2015 at 2:21 PM ^

A basketball player can't play football without a football scholarship. The NCAA put in a heirarchy, with football at the top, to prevent the track team or whatever from being used to gain an advantage in the revenue sports.

A football player can play any other sport, basketball any other than football. I believe hockey and baseball are included somewhere, but I'm not sure.

LSAClassOf2000

October 8th, 2015 at 1:40 PM ^

I believe SnappyTV has publishing settings that allow you to prohibit direct embeds, which might explain why the button for the code was doing nothing. Very rarely do a lot of folks disallow embedded tweets, although you can on that site, even if they provide the exact same content, which is semi-amusing as it makes the other setting useless basically. 

South Bend Wolverine

October 8th, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^

After watching the highlights of the ND game, I believe you that he's one of the top keepers of his age.  We should've lost 3 or 4 to 1, but he did an awesome Tim Howard impression, keeping us alive in the match.  Brilliant performance!

skurnie

October 8th, 2015 at 2:06 PM ^

He's really got a good shot to be the #1 for the US U-20 team. He's right behind the Evan Horvath (Molde in Norway)/Zach Steffen (Formerly at Maryland, now at Freiburg in Germany) types in terms of talent level.

He's been called into Under 18 teams  and was called into the U-20's last September but declined because it was the week school started.

I hope he stays at Michigan another year but I'd say it's highly doubtful based on his talent level and the professional interest he'll receive. There were even questions after last season. 

skurnie

October 8th, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^

They are different in MLS. The Youth Teams are considered clubs and there are no contracts. Players try out for teams and actually pay to play (see here for Columbus Crew's fees). 

However, once the player enrolls in college, they can no longer play for their Club Team (Red Bulls, Crew, etc) as long as they are enrolled because there is a chance they could play with (or against) someone who is being paid. 

brewandbluesaturdays

October 8th, 2015 at 1:47 PM ^

Most kickers take about 3 steps back away from the ball and take a short burst at it, to try and prevent the blocked attempt. It looks like he gets a nice 5-7 yard run at it. I am sure he'd be a great addition just would like to see him kick it like a normal kicker would.

Asgardian

October 8th, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^

The run up, this is a frequent media oversight.  

I remember in the first Michigan game I went to as a kid, the ball went through the uprights on the kickoff (75 yard field goal).

I'm sure the guy has an elite leg, but if soccer players were better kickers you'd expect there would be a lot more of them in the NFL.

HipsterCat

October 8th, 2015 at 2:41 PM ^

I'm sure the guys we have on scholarship and a lot of the soccer team can also drill 50/60 yarders inside with their buddies holding the ball and nothing else going on around them. One of my buddies from college could do 50 yarders pretty consistently since he played high school soccer. 

also here vince wilfork and Carli Lloyd kicking a couple shorter ones on hard knocks

LKLIII

October 8th, 2015 at 11:32 PM ^

All true RE: the kicking dynamics and in-game conditions, but could you IMAGINE how sweet it would be to actually have a ringer field goal kicker that could reliably hit between the uprights 100% of the time from, say, 50 yards out, and 75% of the time from 60 yards out?

I know it's a virtual impossibility, but talk about having an ace in the hole.  It'd likely be an automatic extra 6-12 points per game.

HarBooYa

October 9th, 2015 at 6:08 PM ^

Remy Hamilton was an all state soccer player in Florida before he came to Michigan. Played soccer with him once and the gk on a ok literally left the goal. Ball sizzled when he kicked it.